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HY/AS3240 Making America Modern |
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Study Guide 11
Keep in mind the following questions while reading:
What is the relationship between franchising and suburbanisation?
How did the US government help create the prosperity of the 1950s?
Why the term "A Consumer's Republic" to describe this period?
Is it possible to distinguish between a "Culture of Consumption" and "A Consumer's Republic"?
Additional Reading:
Daniel Bell, The coming of
post-industrial society: a venture in social forecasting. New York:
Basic Books, 1973.
Stephanie Coontz, The way we never were:
American families and the nostalgia trap. New York:
Basic Books, 1992.
John Kenneth Galbraith, The affluent society. New York: New American
Library, 1958.
Stan Luxenberg, Roadside Empires: How The Chains Franchised America.
New York: Viking, 1985.
Douglas T. Miller and Marion Nowak, The
fifties: the way we really were. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977.
David Riesman, Abundance for what?
And other essays. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964.
David Riesman, The lonely crowd: a
study of the changing American character. Garden City, N.Y.:
Doubleday, 1964.
Michael
Sorkin, editor,
Variations On A Theme Park: the new American city and the end of public space.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1992.
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